The numbers that are coming out tell a similar story. UNCTAD expects global growth to slow down to around 2.6%, falling below ...

This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Aug. 1, 2025. One of the hardest jobs of a policymaker is to weigh trade-offs. Few policies are clean, absolute, and ...

Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here. Tariffs are the favorite tool of our current president, but there are lots of other ways that governments insert themselves into the free exchange ...

President Donald Trump just set new tariffs for every country around the world, solidifying his extreme break with America’s long-standing trade policy. Tariffs on the vast majority of goods America ...

The August 1 tariff announcements have clarified the United States’ trade policy, but important details remain unclear. Key questions persist around the definition of transshipment, how countries ...

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building ...

This paper introduces the Trade Policy Activity (TPA) Index, a novel indicator measuring evolving global trade policy dynamics since the Global Financial Crisis. Using a Dynamic Factor Model on ...

The latest Interim Economic Outlook from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) projects global growth slowing from 3.3% in 2024 to 3.2% in 2025 and 2.9% in 2026, as early ...

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